Cristian Garcia
Product Principal, Data Platforms · London
Cristian builds digital products for financial services, from retail and commercial banking to insurance, for teams and customers across Europe, the US, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
He works across the whole product lifecycle, from strategy and the commercial case to building teams and shipping, and has brought automation, machine learning and AI into real products.
Beyond work
Cristian was born in Chile and adopted by London. He has also lived in Italy and India.
When he isn't working, you'll find him at the theatre, travelling to obscure destinations (61 countries and counting), writing 5561, his blog since 2005, exploring real estate opportunities, reading memoirs and WWII history, listening to podcasts, acting, going on long walks, or enjoying whisky and cigars, biryani, tacos, malbec, and great coffee.
He is an active advocate for Latinos in tech globally: host of poderLatino, Global Co-Lead of HOLA at Publicis Groupe, and founder of JUNTOS. Hincha de Colo-Colo. Happily married to Lily.
Este 2026 cierro esta maravillosa área de Europa con Eslovenia, Montenegro y Serbia. En total, estuve casi 6 semanas por estos lados explorando lo que alguna vez fue Yugoslavia.